This is absolutely stunning. There needs to be a mutiny over at the RNC and both Priebus and Hofeller (and whoever else is involved) need to go:

PJ TATLER – PJ Tatler has learned that staff at the RNC have been spending RNC donations plotting to do exactly what Eric Holder is seeking to do – return Texas and other states to federal oversight.

According to RNC sources frustrated with the race-based effort, paid RNC consultant Tom Hofeller ([email protected]) is spending RNC donations to develop race-based criteria to grab Texas and other states and place them back into federal receivership. The sources tell Tatler that nearly all of the members of the actual Committee have been kept in the dark about this effort, and no mention is ever made in RNC fundraising efforts – for good reason, because GOP donors would be furious.

Hofeller, a long-time RNC consultant on redistricting, has devised ways to force several states back into federal receivership by amending the Voting Rights Act to grab states and force them to obtain Washington D.C. approval. He is hopeful that Congressional Republicans will use his RNC-generated ideas to accomplish this goal.

So far, the Republicans in Congress have shown more sense than the Republicans paid by the RNC, and are cool to the idea of returning states to federal receivership.

According to Congressional sources, Hofeller has also been misrepresenting the importance of the law struck down by the Supreme Court. Hofeller has told Hill sources the federal election oversight law is essential to elect Republicans, something most Republicans on the Hill no longer believe is true. Hofeller has spread this message while being paid by the RNC.

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Tallgal83

The RNC and the Rhinos on Capitol Hill are all in cahoots with the devil.

strangernfiction

Tallgal83 Collective evil.

marketcomp

This makes me think and ask the question of do we have people in the Republican Party working for the Democrat Party? Why so the Chris Christy’s and John McCain’s of the RNC always seem to be working against the Republican Party? What the hell is going on?

Tallgal83

I think the RNC and McCain, Mitch, Boehner, Rubio, Cantor, and gang are simply just showing their true colors.

marketcomp

Tallgal83 But there is something way more sinister at work here. Why destroy your own party? Not one democrat is openly and I assume covertly working to destroy the democrat party. So it only makes sense that these people are infiltrators orchestrated by these stupid consultants that Republicans choose to head their campaigns. That’s one reason I respect Sen. Cruz because his manager is outside of the Washington, DC cesspool. We MUST think of a way to eliminate these people and the only way is to make Barack Obama so toxic that no one would even want to come close to him. That’s the challenge.

sDee

marketcomp
What is going on is Kabuki Theater. They are all Progressives and Globalists. Elitist actors who truly believe they know better than we how to run our lives.
Some in Donkey costumes. Some as elephants.

marketcomp

sDee marketcomp It’s no longer kabuki. Its out in the open and on full display for everyone to see. They are out and out open with there objectives and goals.

applepie101

If Schumer’s reference to ‘our republicans’ is any indication, the answer is Yes. I predict that McCain and others plan to switch party in the not-too-distant future. Trying to score brownie points with the enemy is a sign that someone’s about to turn coat and join them.

strangernfiction

marketcomp It’s really quite simple, they are statists.

JohnSchaffran

It is time for a hostile takeover of the RNC with common sense Americans!

sDee

JohnSchaffran
The GOP will not clean its own house.

It starts at the local and state levels – where each and every one of us can make a significant difference. Block captain, precinct chair, Party officer, delegate, volunteer – it deos not matter where. We can take the Party back.

The Sentinel

sDee JohnSchaffran
I respect and appreciate you Dee…
But I don’t want them back. I want a new party. It’s not rational to say that because it’s extremely difficult to start a new… but I’m so sick of the two existing parties selling out America for their own gain.

strangernfiction

The Sentinel sDee JohnSchaffran Even if it could be done, the name is too tainted.

SalvatoreAnello

As if I needed more evidence. This absolutely clinches it. The two party system is a sham and has been for over a century. Reagan was obviously an aberration and so was Kennedy for that matter. China won the cold war, not us or the Russians. We haven’t seen real freedom in our lifetime and never will. That was clinched 1n 1913 with the sixteenth amendment nullifying the constitution as it was intended.

applepie101

Comparing Capitol hill to Kabuki theater is a common metaphor, but it’s more like a puppet show, as both parties are the left and right hand of one puppeteer, The federal government has been the bane of this country.

strangernfiction

SalvatoreAnello Losing the Cold War was the best thing that ever happened to the commies.

Rshill7

The only way to undo a SCOTUS decision is with another SCOUTS decision.
This decision by the RNC is more like a SCROTUS decision.
Kick ’em in the SCROTUS!

So now we have the democans and the republocrats. There is no two party system. And as Salvatore said they been at it for 100 years to destroy America.

The Sentinel

Can someone tell me how is the GOP(e) is different then the Democraps again?
Priebus reeks of scandal and corruption. He’s a Rove minion. Part of the corrupt string pullers. These people need to be exposed and removed – forcibly. And then Priebus can appear on MSNBC and CNN as a contributor, where he belongs.

E Lee Zimmerman

The Sentinel They aren’t, and they haven’t been for decades.

The Sentinel

E Lee Zimmerman The Sentinel
It was rhetorical… but you are completely correct.

Laurel A

Wilderness.

NJK

I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that the RNC and GOP are infiltrated with radical communists. The RNC and GOP better wake up, or they’re finished. Karl Rove may be one of them. This Preibus guy used to work for the left.

applepie101

They’re finished as far as I’m concerned. Not one more vote for any republican on any level ever again. They’re democrats to me.

HOUSTONPETITION

OK…so Birch Society is correct, correct and correct

Larchmonter

When will Conservatives and Libertarians wake up and realize the GOP is merely the right hand of the Elites. Never think they are an alternative. They are the DC establishment. They want to be a part of whatever is ruling America. They would negotiate a deal with any devil.

EchoMike

Conservatives in MASS need to stop sending money to these Republican organizations. They don’t represent us anymore. In my opinion from here on out CONSERVSTIVES should be running against Washington. We need candidates who will stand up and denounce not just Obama and the Dems, but the Bush’s and the Roves, and the establishment as a whole. We need an agenda that will expose their addiction to power by requiring candidates who publically support term limits, cut/cap/balance, and true tax reform (not just getting rid of deductions to screw “rich people”) via flat tax or fair tax. Expose all of the ruling class for what they all are. Also the conservative message will never take hold again unless we can pry the public liberal indoctrination machine, known as public education, from their hands as well.

Laurel A

EchoMike As soon as I posted RNC called…I blasted them. I wish they would get me off of their phone list but on the other hand message was sent.
Any mail I get I write on it and send it back on their dime as well. Last one I sent a letter stapled to their fundraising request slip.

Longiron

The GOP feel that conservatives do not have the guts to start a 3rd party. They will moan & groan and Rush & Levin will have some talking points but they will continue to try and change the party from within. Well, they are right! Until TP conservatives quit bitching and take action we are no different that the current RINO, GOP establishment. We will talk and say stuff of how bad the PUB party is but nothing will be done. Until TP conservatives realize the emeny is the RINO, GOP party and get them out as a main GOAL we will never to be able to take on the LIBS & DEMS. Look it now the establishment, RINO, GOP party do NOT want to defund the worst piece of legislation in our life time called Obamacare.. How much more is it going to take to WAKE UP ??????

applepie101

Thanks for highlighting this, TRS. Even I was stunned by this one. And thank you to the RNC source who blew the whistle on this. It proves that at least part of the republican party is involved in a concerted effort to undermine our constitutional rights. That’s nothing less than treason.

Rshill7

Dear RNC:
Enclosed is my donation. It’s a roll of toilet paper because you are all so sh*tty. That other little thingamabag is a tea sample. Make a batch, stick your heads down in it and inhale deeply.
Disrespectfully,
Rs.

Rshill7

Breaking News: There was a mass tea drowning at the RNC today. More details as they come in…

Rshill7

Correction: Should’ve said “more details as they emerge” 🙂

ChrisDias

In a Mark Levin monologue, he played a clip of this guy saying that “we are the party of evrerybody, the all-inclusive party”. He lost his rocker.

Rshill7

ChrisDias Someone ought introduce that guy to the tried and “true” concept of voter fraud. I guess “all-inclusive” includes fraudulent votes for the opposition. Good thinking…guy.
Balloon head in need of acupuncture.

jdbaird

My Dad’s been voting Republican since 1973 and giving money to the RNC since like 1986 and just recently cut off his donations because of this type of stuff. Hopefully more people wise up and do the same.

DarrellGriffin

I have long been an advocate for working within the GOP. To elect and promote conservatives from within the party structure to effect the national changes that are desperately needed. I’ve always viewed “third party” as a wasted vote and a guaranteed Dem win…because it is.
The problem with the GOP, is that the leadership lets the libs set the rules, pick the refs, break the rules, and then does the playcalling for the GOP…and the GOP accepts it.
In 2010, the GOP was handed overwhelming victories on all fronts and they squandered it. They went back to business as usual, instead of doing what the voters mandated them to do. This is why they lost in 2012. No more, no less.
This is why they will continue to lose, and why at this point, we may as well have a third party who will truly represent us instead of being the spineless Democrat Lite wimps we see today.

JimCohen

The RNC is determined to commit suicide.

stage9

JimCohen And they’ve moved WAAAAAAY beyond being so dumb to shoot themselves in the foot anymore, they have that barrel right smack in the middle of their big fat rotting foreheads!

Conservator1

I have contacted the RNC, Reince Priebus via his Facebook page (only way I could find) and the GOP at http://www.gop.com/contact-us/ about this story. After reading the full article by PJ Tatler, I was outrage and if true, I will only support Tea Party conservatives.
Reince Priebus and his team must be replaced before I ever support the GOP again.

njmom

We need a third party everyone and the sooner the better because the two we have now have betrayed us!

stage9

njmom Agreed, and the time we would lose to Democrats would almost be worth the sacrifice we make to jettison the repugnantcans and actually create CONTRAST over COLLUSION!

I’m sorry, I know folks like Levin and others don’t believe in a third party, and I fully understand their reasoning for that, but I’m sorry the repugnantcan party is pure garbage. Someone in a another thread asked if there should only be a single party, because that’s what would happen if a third party was formed, but the fact is there ALREADY IS ONE PARTY!
THE LIBUBLICANS!

grayhairedvet

These inside the beltway elites need to stop just talking among themselves because they’re dangerously close to not having any constituency whatsoever. When they lose conservatives and the majority of libertarian voters salvaging a small percentage of the Latino vote isn’t going to help. I don’t know what’s happened to these birds, but it’s not good and probably terminal. They’d better hope that their pro-immigration sugar daddies have very deep pockets because everything else is going to just dry up and blow away.

lawngreen

grayhairedvet Even deep pockets won’t help them. They have to have an extremely high percentage of the votes to overcome the democrats’ control the voting process, which means there will be massive (democrat) fraud in however many elections take place between now and the obama regime’s takeover.

marketcomp

I don’t believe anything a spokesman from the RNC says. Now, if Sen. Cruz, Sarah Palin, or Mark Levin says different, then maybe I will give what the RNC says some thought. Otherwise, they are liars to me.

Orangeone

marketcomp Bingo! The RNC got caught again. The RNC is shoving the amnesty through too. They are no different than the progs.

Tallgal83

IMO the RNC is lying. They are the ones merging themselves with the Dems. They are the same people that back big government one day then say they are for small government the next. Reince is a proven liar.

1tootall

Very illuminating. Enough readers believed that it was true that it had to be denied. That should tell us everything we need to know about the RNC. I have hung up on their calls here at home. I’m not sure what language they speak, but they continually miss the point.

red_red_head

1tootall False. I simply contacted them to ask them if it was true. This was their response.

1tootall

red_red_head 1tootall Im not sure what you’re responding to here. If you read the response in this forum, no one believes the denials!!! IT speaks for itself. I don’t know what you are saying is false. sorry.

red_red_head

1tootall I’m the one that contact the RNC to request a statement and to find out whether or not this was true. You can believe what you like, but the RNC isn’t going to demand a full apology and retraction if they’re in the wrong. red_red_head

1tootall

red_red_head 1tootall wow, you really are missing the point here. Its that many in this forum don’t accept the denial. Dont you understand that??? I’m not questioning the validity of your statement, and in fact, I believe it as you have recalled it. But there are many in this forum who found that it WAS believable!! THAT’S the point ….Get it???

red_red_head

1tootall So you’ll believe the lie but not the one that’s actually verifiable and on the record. Gotcha. red_red_head

1tootall

red_red_head 1tootall Last try here. I am saying that this was believable, even if it is not true. Thus, because many in this forum FOUND it believable, (as opposed to something like Billy Graham stealing money, which is completely UNbelievable), it tells us that while NOT true, that it is believable means these guys are confused, compromised and vulnerable. That’s what it means…. And that’s my last shot at trying to explain it. You sound like you are willfully NOT getting it. You sure you are not a troll???

Conservator1

1tootallThis is the story red_red_head evidently wrote:

1tootall

Conservator1 1tootall I just checked in other parts of the website and her picture looks a LOT like a Kemberlee Kaye that has written some really good stuff. But she is awfully dense with the comments I’ve made here…

lawngreen

red_red_head 1tootall I’m confused. I read the full article and didn’t see anything about a “full apology and retraction”. You stated above “This was their response” – what was their response? I didn’t see that. Was their response supposed to be in your comment, or elsewhere?

lawngreen

Disregard my earlier comment. Conservator1 supplied the link.

lawngreen

red_red_head 1tootall Speaking for myself, I’m not willing to believe anything about either side of this story at this point. Since the RNC has apparently demanded a retraction and apology, fine, let’s see a thorough investigation, starting with who is the original source of this story?
But the republican party has deteriorated to such an extent that the RNC’s denial isn’t sufficient for me. If they had not demied it, I suspect there would have been an instant and catastrophic drop in donations and membership, which is reason enough for their denial and also for the democrats to plant a story like this. It needs to be thoroughly investigated.
It’s a shame that the GOP has become so untrustworthy that this is believable, but that is the case.

Orangeone

red_red_head 1tootall Oh yes they will. The RNC continues to get caught in their lies. Let’s look at the destruction of marriage, homosexuals adopting children they may later molest shall we. Oh and amnesty will SAVE the economy, SAVE the republican party. Gag me.

paleophlatus

Maybe that WAS their response………nothing .

1tootall

In view of j Christian Adams’ piece posted today on pj media, my instincts were on the money. And you should NOT be so quick to take the RNC at their word. Hope you are a bit wiser now.

South Bronx

Frank Luntz, and Mike Murphy have hijacked the republican party.

lawngreen

South Bronx I wonder if it isn’t the Three Stooges who’ve hijacked the repub party.

kong1967

Hard to say if it’s true or not. I don’t want to beat the drums yet.

Tallgal83

Personally, I don’t believe the RNC’s denial. These are the same people that allow Rove to have a say.

lawngreen

Tallgal83 I really don’t care. If the RNC was what it should have been, or if the GOP was what it should have been, this would not have happened.

paulejb

Never under any circumstances donate to the RNC. They practice “go along to get along” to the detriment of Republican ideals.

OliviaHT

paulejb
To the detriment of Republican ideas means in fact to the furtherance of liberal-progressive policies. Except for a handful of elected congressmen, the GOP needs to go the way of the dinosaur: extinction.

slhancock1948

The RNC called me twice the other morning. They’d called before, but I was in therapy sessions for a broken wrist and surgical repair. My husband gave them an earful for me, but they thought they’d try me anyway. I stopped both conversations at the very beginning and told them I would NEVER EVER donate tot he RNC again, have NOT been for 10 years or more now, and will ONLY donate to candidates that I investigate and feel I can trust. I told them I did not want one dime going to even ONE RINO. They tried to say that republicans were doing good things these days. I said, “still NO!” and hung up.

Orangeone

slhancock1948 I’m much quicker in my response. I tell them to solicit their illegal aliens.

NJK

slhancock1948
They called me a couple of weeks ago. I told them I can’t support people who spend months fighting for illegal foreign invaders to our country, but never spoke up when their voters were being harassed by the IRS, in the 2012 campaign.
The RNC and GOP now consider Mexico their country and Mexican citizens their constituents. They are traitors, plain and simple.

Morlock1

@slhancock1948 – My husband and I don’t even take the calls anymore. But what we did (until we stopped getting so many snail mail solicitations) was stuff – and I mean stuffed – the reply envelope not with our donation but with monopoly money and sent it back to them. Told ’em we figured this was the only kind of money we could really trust them with – and the message was on their dime.

slhancock1948

Morlock1 LOL! Good idea!

deTocqueville1

Does anyone believe Pubus?

Judges718

deTocqueville1
As much as Huma Weiner trusts Anthony Weiner.
When asked by Mark Levin about the RNC supporting Michele Bachmann, Pubus lied several times..
Pubus is a worm. He even resembles one.

MaroonRepublic

I think it’s about time for conservatives to split. We worry about it costing us short term but with the democrats and establishment, what do we have to lose? They’re almost the same when it comes to wanting to keep absolute power.

lawngreen

MaroonRepublic Long past time, IMO. Too late, maybe.

strangernfiction

MaroonRepublic The only difference is their constituencies.

lawngreen

“Hofeller has told Hill sources the federal election oversight law is
essential to elect Republicans, something most Republicans on the Hill
no longer believe is true.”
Most? Wrong. There are NO Republicans who believe this is true, or ever believed it was true. It’s only RINOs who believe this, and I think they’re only pretending to believe it in hopes of leading LIRV (low information republican voters) to their doom.
The exact opposite is clearly true. I think the dems have perfected a stupid virus and managed to infect the GOP with it.

Orangeone

lawngreen Just like they keep trying to sell amnesty will help the Republican party. Ooops, didn’t work out so well after Reagan’s 1986 amnesty did it. Over 70% of “amnestied” are democraps

lawngreen

Orangeone lawngreen
Yep.
(That’s my Gary Cooper imitation.)

strangernfiction

lawngreen Not stupid, statist.

lawngreen

strangernfiction lawngreen I agree, but I think statism is stupid. IN the end, it destroys everyone’s dreams and opportunities. The scum in power can satay there for a long time, if they’re ruthless enough, but the entire statist system always crashes in the end, and is far less enjoyable than a capitalist system for a long time before the statist system crashes.

Martin2717

Color me shocked. /s

South Bronx

I wouldn’t trust Priebus as far as I’d trust Anthony Weiner at this point.

harryojam

RINOs =Democrat=Communist/Socialist Time to clean house of them all, including the Courts. The People have been enslaved by the Progressives of both parties.

harryojam

I’ve been a registered Republican for over 50 years, as of today I’m an Independent.

PoCoTex

What’s going on here?
Is the Republican Party committing suicide or what?

bahamianhoosier

PoCoTex I truly believe more and more they will “blend” themselves with libs and in 20 years they will say “no need for 2 parties. Lets all be friends!” Then where does that leave us true American workers?! Time to act is now. We will become the Whigg

Stehekin912

It’s hard to commit suicide when the Party is already….um…deceased. It is a Zombie party…some good people still in it, but the Party is a zombie

NJK

Stehekin912
They’re a rotting corpse.

strangernfiction

PoCoTex No, they are helping the ‘rats destroy the Land of the Free.

Jayrae

If Mark Levin addresses this this evening we will know the truth.

K-Bob

PJMedia is still standing by its story. Says the have more questions for Spicer and Hofeller.

I don’t know if it’s true or not but I’d have no trouble believing it from this RNC crowd. I’m done with the RNC unless they clean house – and that means Boehner as well.

John_Frank

Has PJ Tatler apologized and retracted the piece?
No. In fact, in their update, they write:

“RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer is denying the claims made
within this article, both via phone and by submitting comments below as
“SeanS”.

Additionally, Tom Hofeller, mentioned in this article, claims via email that this article is “unequivocally false.”
PJ Media not only has 100% confidence in the accuracy of the
article’s contents, we offered Spicer, via email, three additional
questions for the RNC to answer regarding their denial:

1. Does RNC oppose a renewed Section 4 of the Voting
Rights Act, or is the story accurate that RNC consultants are working on
a fix?
2. Does RNC oppose an amended Section 4?
3. Was RNC’s staff involved in the 2006 reauthorization of Section 5 — advocating amendment and higher burdens on states?
We stated that we would wait for their responses and would publish them in this article.”
The RNC has some explaining to do, because it appears to many of us they have gone over to the other side.

bluerose3335

Hey….THEN STOP SUPPORTING THE GOP….GOD do many of you ever get tired of complaining. It is pathetic…WHERE IN GODS NAME DID ANY OF YOU GET THE IDEA THE GOP SUPPORTED CONSERVATIVES?????????????????????????????????????????? I mean come on already…Shock…dismay…REALLY and what rock have you been hibernating under!!! THE GOP has NEVER BEEN CONSERVATIVE….NEVER….they crave power in DC as much as the DEMS….God 90 percent of Congress is LAWYERS and like little dummies people keep voting for them. OH the we want someone new…BS….every time that is tried the same punks win and GUESS WHAT back to the same place.
Can anyone explain what that LOSER REINCE is still doing there? HE HAD HIS BUTT WHIPPED IN 2012 and this JERK is still ahead of the RNC. Say no more….listen Rove, Reince, Boehner, Cantor, Ryan and others will Never change. SO DO IT FOR THEM…DUMP the GOP and finally be INDEPENDENT and support such candidates. Rochefeller Repubs live, breathe and crap DC…..and until we change it they will continue to backstap, undercut and manipulate….CHANGE THE NARRATIVE and CHANGE THE PLAYERS…we all the power to do and that means clean out all the HOUSE and all the SENATE. Some will remain because they live in liberal bastions but others GET RID OF THEM…..starting with Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, Graham and we know the others.

applepie101

One question mark is sufficient.

Richard Laycock

applepie101
He’s frustrated. For damn good reason.
Anyone supporting any Republican is simply voting to die of thousand cuts instead of being marched to the guillotine.

DebbyX

Richard Laycock applepie101 ……………..paper cuts……………………..

NJK

bluerose3335
I know how you feel. I will vote for the candidate who’s shown fidelity to the founding and constitution. If that candidate doesn’t win the primary and Jeb Bush or Chris Christie win, I will be sitting it out. I can’t do it anymore. I’ll never vote for the GOP ticket again. I hope they have enough illegal aliens to make up for what used to be their base.

DavidZimmerman2

bluerose3335
Donate to Sarahpac. And should she throw her hat in the ring, donate to her.

57thunderbird

Just one more reason I don’t give any money to the RNC,added to my long and growing list of reasons.

applepie101

In denying the article in total, is the RNC is saying that
1. Hofeller is NOT an RNC consultant?
2. There is no RNC attempt to force states into federal receivership?
3. Most of the committee has NOT been kept in the dark about this?
Add these to the questions PJMedia is asking in their update.

snowshooze

RNC is of no further use to us.

tshtsh

The RNC and particularly its chair had already proven they were not remotely acquainted with “truth, justice and the American way” when they did not keep their word regarding Ms. Bachmann.

Valin

Now I am no fan of the RNC, but until I see something more than “sources tell us” it is just He said/She said.
Names…Documents please.

What we see here is a part of the on going war inside both the party and politcs in general

The American Political Parties Are Breaking Down
Walter Russell Mead
October 31, 2011
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/10/31/the-american-political-parties-are-breaking-down/

emmelsmith

The GOP and the DNC are two sides of the same progressive party. The GOP hates conservatives and libertarians as much as the DNC does.

PhilSniffen

Can you believe anything that comes out of Washington D.C.? I can’t anymore, they ALL LIE! I used to believe I could save our Country by voting for smaller govt., BUT this president has shown that he will break any law he wants and not enforce the laws that he is charged with enforcing.
It is time to get together with your neighbors, and establish a plan to survive after the country goes down.

slhancock1948

I think we all can count on a couple hands the true conservatives, of which, I feel that Ted Cruz leads the way. I like Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Rand Paul most of the time, in the Senate and there are about 6-7 in the House that are pulling their weight. We REALLY HAVE to take the 2014 elections and not with just republicans, but conservative republicans, or conservative 3rd party candidates. This nonsense has got to stop.